Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-12-22

tiOnaI Legislature.
MANY bills were introduced in the Senate on
the 18th inst. and referred, among them tho
/ following: BY Mr.. Beck, for the retirement OF
United States legal tender and national bank
hotss OF small denomination, and the issue Of
coin certificates In lieu of gold and silver GER
tincates. BY Mr.. Dolph, to provide for FORTH
cations and otner seacoast defenses. BY Mr..
Edmunds, to provide for the establishment OF
. postal telegraph. By Mr.. Bowen, for the
free coinage Of silver. BY Mr.. Msnder-
dier and sailor who is incapacitated for
the performance Of manual labor and for PEN
diers and sailors He said he introduced this
bill ut the unanimous request Of the Grand
Army Of the Republic Also for the admission
OF the State OF Dakota and the organization OF
the Territory OF Lincoln. BY Mr. Cullom-For
n ension TO the widow Of Gen. John A. Logan
also for n constitutional amendment In rela-
lor For 20 tna astsndIno
the right of suffrage; also for the re-
lief OF women enrolled as army nurses. BY Mr..
Washington and Dakota. BY Mr. Hoar--For
the erection of a monument to the negro SOL
ders killed in the war; BY Senator Plumb
To make IL an offense punishable by fine
and imprisonment for any railroad, sleep
ing-car, telegraph, or express company to
offer any Congressman or other Govern
ment enploye any, free pass or reduction
from the ordinary rates charged, or for any
government employe to accept or use such q
pass. Mr.. Hale offered a preamble and resolu-
tion providing for tho appointment OF select
committee Of seven to examine fully into the
present condition of the civil service in all
its branches; to ascertain whether appoint
ments haYe been based on merit and quail
fications or distributed as partisan favors, and
rs to the participation OF governments officials
In political conventions and elections. In the
House of Representatives, Speaker Carlisle,
having called Mr.. Crisp (Ga) to the chair, stop
ped down upon the noor and addressed the
House as follows: 1T is well known that
there is contest pending which makes 1t
improper for me, as presiding officer Of the
House, TO appoint the Committee on Elections.
/ have left the chair, therefore, for the
purpose OF asking the House to excuse me.
from the performance OF that duty and take
such proceedings in this matter as its judg-
ment may dictate ! have no suggestion to
make except to say that the formation OF the
committees Of the House will be facilitated by
having this matter disposed of at the earliest
day that will suit the convenience Of mem
bers." On motion OF Mr.. Holman, a resolution
was adopted providing for the election of the
fifteen members OF tho committee.
ran senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections investigat d the West Virginia con-
tested-election case, on the 18th inst, and de-
cided unanimously to report in favor Of Mr..
Faulkners claim to the vacant seat. Mr. In
gals introduced bills TO remove the limitation
In the payment OF arSears of pensions and
granting arrears In certain cases to those PEN
stoned by special acts OF Congress. Mr.. Gull
lom introduced a bill to equalize the rate
OF pensions. 1t fixes tho pension for loss of
sight or disability requiring regular medical
attendance at $72 per month. Mr.. Cullom also
introduced a bill to establish the United States
postal telegraph, and another to define and ex-
tend the powers of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. Senator Jones, OF Arkansas in
troduced a bill to open the great Sioux reserva-
tion in Nebraska to settlement Senator Dawes
introduced q bill taxing manufacturers and
dealers in adulterated lard, and requiring it to
be stamped. The Senate Committee on Agri-
culture will give a hearing on this subject in
January. The Finance Committee made a favor
able report on the Morrill, bill TO refund to
the States the direct taxes imposed by the act
OF 1861. The aggregate is about SIS, ,000 The
bill was placed on the calendar. The Senate
voted to continue Senator CockrelIs select
committee to inquire into the executive de-
duced bill to regulate the holding of Con-
gressional elections in South Carolina,
Florida, Mississippi, and louisiana. The
House unanimously adopted a resolution
offered by Mr. Cannon (Ill.) declaring that the
following named gentlemen should constitute
(Chairman), O'FeTall, Outhwaite Barry
Maish, Heard, Johnson IN. c., ONoill 1nd),
Moore, Rowell, Houk, Cooper, Lyman, Johnson
Qnd.), and Lodge. Speaker Carlisle then di.
rected that all papers in the varions contested
election GASES be referred to this committee.
THE committee report on the West Virginia
contested election case was unanimously
adopted by the Senate on the 14th inst, and the
oath Of office was administered TO Mr.. Faulk-
ner. Mr. Morrill, addressed the Senate at some
length on his bill relating to foreign immigra-
tion, the principal object of which, he ex-
planned, was to have the character OF the
immigrants examined by the United
States Consul at the port Of departure.
population of the country was COM
posed OF foreigners, and expressed doubt as
to the possibility OF Transforming them into
good American citizens. Among the bills in
troduced in the Senate were the following: BY
Mr. George, to protect innocent purchas-
ers of patented articles; by Senator
a 20 fhn al n
south OF Indian Territory to the Territory OF
Now Mexico; also, a bill to appropriate S10O.000
for the erection OF a public building at Vicks-
burg, Miss Senator Butler introduced with
slight amendments the bill reported from the
Committee on Improvement OF the Mississippi
River last session, and known as the Cowden
outlet bill. 1t is entitled "A bill 60 make the
Lake Borgne outlet. to improve the low-water
navigation OF the Mississippi River from New
Orleans to Cairo. and incidentally TO- reclaim
from overflow without levees." The House was
not in session.
SENATOR BUTLER introduced in the Senate,
on the 18th inst, bill, framed by the Ma
tional Association Of Railway Conductors, to
license conductors It provides that no rail-
road shall employ any person as railroad con-
ductor upon any train engaged in interstate
commerce unless the person is licensed as pro.
vided by the act. Senator George introduced
bill to protect employees and servants en-
merce, which provides that they shall
bo entitled TO receive damages for any in
Jury sustained through the carelessness, neg
lect or unskillful act or omission of their en-
ployers or masters, or Of their fellow-servanta
engaged on the same service. Senator Stewart
addressed the Senate in support OF his coin
certificate bill. A bill was introduced by Mr..
Plumb to forfeit lands granted to the State OF
Michigan for q railroad from Marquette to On
tonagon, and another by Mr.. Palmer to increase
to S2OOOOO0 the limit of the appropriation for q
public building at Detroit, Mich. The House
was not in session.